Despite the relatively high participation rate of immigrants in the Medicaid program, Camarota and Edwards (2000) report that immigrants are also disproportionately more likely to be in the population of uninsured persons: although persons in immigrant households make up only 13% of the population,they make up 26% of the uninsured. Camarota and Edwards conclude that “immigrants who arrived between 1994 and 1998 accounted for 59% of the growth in the size of the
uninsured population” during that period